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Friday, July 28, 2017

A community fed up: Tips flood in as Baltimore hits 200 homicides

WASHINGTON — Reaching 200 homicides is a benchmark no one in Baltimore wanted. But as the city continues to track toward a record number of killings, police are noting two drastic changes already quelling violence in Charm City.

“That’s 200 human beings. My brother being one of those numbers. We don’t look at them as numbers, we look at them as human beings,” said Baltimore Police spokesman T.J. Smith. Smith’s brother was killed earlier this month.

The city was already on pace for its third consecutive year of record violence when an unidentified 23-year-old man was gunned down on Greenmount Avenue Wednesday afternoon — becoming the city’s 200th homicide victim.

Unlike 2016, when detectives solved almost a third of all homicides in the city, Smith said the clearance rate this year is closer to two-thirds.

So, it appears that this administration's solution to violence is to allow SO MUCH violence that the affected communities become so overwhelmingly disgusted by the violence that they finally take a stand to stop killing each other. Not sure if that's brilliant, cynical, or both.

A lot of these inner city thugs are fighting for their lives on a daily basis. How about allowing them to do something constructive; send them to Syria, Aghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan to fight ISIS then we will see how long they make it.